Bicycle-saddle



No. 6l5,223. Patented Nov. 29, I898. A. E. PECK.

BICYCLE SADDLE.

(Application filed Jan. 6, 1896.)

(No mum.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR E. PIECE, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

BICYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,223, dated November 29, 1898.

Application filed January 6, 1896- Serial No. 574,422. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR E. PEcK, of the city of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Saddles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements upon the devices shown and described in the patent granted to me November 24, 1896, No. 572,062; and the object of myinvention is to provide a comfortable, sure, and hygienic seat for bicycles.

The particular object of this invention is to provide asaddle of a particularly comfortable form and of a neat appearance and one, furthermore, which will be of a cheaper construction than those which I have hitherto devised.

A further object is to provide a seat of an economical construction, one which will be thoroughly durable and which will overcome the objections to all former devices of its class.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a bicycle-seat of the construction and combinations, all as hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a plan View of a saddle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan View thereof from beneath. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on the line mxof Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section on the line 1 'y of Fig. 1.

The seat is made up of three principal parts-the rear part 2,which is the seat proper, and the two flaps or auxiliary supports 3 and 4. In the preferred form of the saddle the base of these parts is stamped and formed from thin sheet metal, the edges being turned downwardly and nicely rounded. The parts 3 and 4 are simply covered by a skin of leather or like material 7, stretched over the same, and leather may be stretched and bound upon the wide rear part 2, if desired, fitting closely upon the surface thereof. to cushion or pad the rear section 2. The metallic portions of the frame remain the same whether a simple covering of skin or a cushion is used.

I prefer, however,

8 represents the steel spring of the saddle, adapted to be secured upon a T-bar, which is fixed in the bicycle-frame, the upper side of the spring 8 extending along beneath the part 2, which is fixed thereon.

The outer corners of the parts 3 4 are provided with lugs or projections 18, and such lugs are also provided upon the parts 2, opposite parts being pivoted together by short bolts or pins 19. The flaps are thus pivoted or hinged upon the rearsectio'n, and the downward movement of either flap will, through the medium of the cord and pulley, cause the other flap or section to move in an opposite direction. The downward movement of the flaps is limited, and they do not usually rise above the level of the rearsection. The crack between the forward and rear sections is closed by a strip or strips 20 of very thin flexible leather. In place of an open joint I may make the same as a piano-hinge is made, so that the opening is closed.

As shown in the drawings, I provide a pommel or horn in connection with the seat. This pommel may be extended forward from the part 2 and between the flaps, and ordinarily its only office is to prevent the rider from being thrown sidewise off fromthe saddle. It may, however, be employed as a support for and means whereby the opposite reciprocation of the flaps or leg-sections is obtained. A very simple device for this purpose is here shown to consist of a swivel pulley or sheave 24:, hung within the horn or pommel 26 and over which a cord 27 extends, this cord having its lower ends fastened in arms 27, depending from the opposite flaps 3 4. Any suitable means may be employed for securing the ends of the cord in these arms.

The body construction of the saddle is that of a skeleton, over which sole leather is stretched; but a stamped sheet-metal body may be employed in connection with the horn if desired. It is obvious that gears or other forms may be employed as a medium of connection between the flaps, and generally I do not confine my invention to the struction shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent precise con- The combination, in a bicycle saddle or In testimony whereof I have hereunto set seat, of a rear section or seat proper, with the my hand this 26th day of November, A. D. IO supporting sections orfiaps hinged or pivoted 1895. to the forward edge thereof, a mechanism 5 connecting said flaps whereby one is raised ARrl HUB PECK' when the other is depressed, and a horn or In presence of pommel projecting from said rear section and C. G. HAWLEY,

between said flaps, substantially as described. M. E. GOOLEY. 

